Shade-bracket and support.



No. 836,242. PATENTED-NOV. 20, 1906. J. A. CHARLTON. SHADE BRACKET AND SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 8. 1906..

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JOSEPH ALDINE CHARLTON, OF HINTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

SHADE-BRACKET AND SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed February 8, 1906. Serial No- 300.114.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osnrn ALDINE CHARL- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hinton, in the county of Summers and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade- Brackets and Supports; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in shade-brackets and supports for the same.

The object of the invention is to provide an adjustable shade-bracket support which may be quickly and easily applied to a win (low-frame to support a shade-bracket adapted to be adjustably secured thereto.

A further object is to provide means whereby said shade-bracket may be quickly and adjustably secured to the support.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of devices, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of one side of the windowframe, showing the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the supportin -board looking toward one end of the bracket. Fig. 3 is a similar view looking toward the opposite end of the bracket.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 denotes a bracketsupporting board, in one end of which is formed a longitudinally-disposed slot 2, which opens through the end of said board, as shown. In the opposite end of the board is formed a longitudinally-disposed slot 3, which is intersected midway between its ends by a transverselydisposed slot 4. By means of the slots 2, 3, and 4 the board 1 may be engaged with clamping-screws 5, which are here shown in the form of screw-eyes and which are screwed into the windowcasing, as shown. After the board has been engaged with the screws 5 and adjusted to the desired position said screws may be tightened, thereby clamping or securing the board to the window-frame in its adjusted position. To the board 1 is adapted to be attached a shade-bracket 6, said bracket being preferably provided with means whereby the same may be adjustably connected with the board and secured thereto in its adjusted position. The shadebracket 6 is here shown as being provided with a base-plate 7, the opposite ends of which are bent inwardly and downwardly to form attaching-clips 8, which are engaged with the opposite edges of the board 1, as shown. The base-plate 7 is provided with perforations 9, through which screws or other fastening means may be inserted to secure the bracket to the board, if so desired.

Slidably engaged with the outer side of the bracket 6 is a clamping-plate 10, by means of which the bracket may be secured to the board 1 in its adjusted positions without the use of screws or other fastening devices. The clamping-plate 10 is here shown as being wedge-shaped or tapered from its upper toward its lower end and provided with a central obliquely-disposed slot 12, which is adapted to be engaged by a tongue 13, which is preferably cut from the metal forming the bracket and bent over through the slot 12 into engagement with the outer surface of the plate 10, thereby slidably engaging said plate with the bracket. The lower end of the plate 10 is bent at right angles and rounded to form a finger-piece 14. The arrangement of the plate 10 on the bracket is such that the inner edge of the plate when the same is drawn downwardly is adapted to be brought into tight frictional engagement with the side of the board, owing to the taper of said edge and the oblique position of the slot through which the tongue 3 projects, thereby, together with the clips 8, securely clamping the bracket to the board.

If desired, a protecting hood or guard 15 may be secured to the base-plate 7 of the bracket, said hood or guard-plate being here shown in the form of a strip of metal of suitable width curved to conform to the shape of the bracket 6, the upper portion of the plate or strip terminating in a right-angularlyformed attaching-flange 16, adapted to be engaged with inwardly-bent attaching-lugs 17, formed on the plate 7 of the bracket. Said flange is also provided with a perforation 18, which is adapted to aline with the upper perforation in the plate 7 to receive a screw or other fastening means, if desired.

The lower side of the hood or guard-plate 15 terminates a suitable distance from the base of the plate 7, thereby forming an opening through which the shade may pass when being wound or unwound upon the roller.

By means of a shade-bracket and supporting-board as herein shown and described a shade-roller may be quickly and easily hung and adjusted to a level position, the construction of the bracket here shown being such that rollers of various lengths may be supported.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this. invention as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. A shadebracketsupporting board, means to detachably connect the same to a window-frame, a shade-bracket, a ton ue projecting therefrom, attaching-clips to s id- I ably connect the bracket with said board, and a slotted wedge-shaped. or tapered key slidably mounted on said bracket to hold the same in its adjusted position on said board, said tongue engaging the slot in said key, substantially as described. 7

2. A shade-bracket-supporting board, means to detachably connect thesame to a window-frame, a shade-bracket, attachingclips to slidably connect the bracket with said board, and a locking-plate having a tapered edge and an obliquely-disposed slot whereby it is slidably engaged with a securing-tongue on said bracket, a finger-piece formed on said plate whereby it is shifted to engage said tapered edge with said supporting-board, thus securing said bracket in its adjusted position on said board, substantially as described.

3. A shade-bracket-supporting board, means to detachably connect the same to a window-frame, a shade-bracket, attachin clips to slidably connect the bracket wit said board, a locking-plate slidably engaged with said bracket to hold the same in sliding engagement with said supporting-board and a hood or guard-plate secured to said bracket, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH ALDINE CHARLTON.

Witnesses:

J. F. BIGONY, HIRAM F. BIGONY. 

